Making Simple Paint Chip Mother's Day Cards

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May 5, 2020

Simple Paint Chip Mother's Day Cards - two different styles of Mother's Day cards Here is a simple tutorial on how you could use sample paint chips (that you may have from previous painting projects) and incorporate them into Mother's Day cards. Here are 2 cards I made - one for my mother and one for my mother-in-law.

Total Time: 30 minutes

Supplies:

paint chip samples
cardstock or blank card
glue stick
scissors
paper punch design
stickers

Steps:

I personally didn't want the words showing so I trimmed the paint samples down to a rectangle and sized them to fit my blank card horizontally.

Simple Paint Chip Mother's Day Cards - trim samples to remove words and to fit the card

As a nice accent, I used this paper punch on opposite sides. If you don't have a paper punch design, don't worry - you could leave it as is. And put a colored border underneath, or make your own creation.

Simple Paint Chip Mother's Day Cards - adding paper punch accents

Figure out where you would like to glue the paint chips and position in place. For this card, I personally liked the horizontal layout best.

Simple Paint Chip Mother's Day Cards - horizontal layout

Simple Paint Chip Mother's Day Cards - different view of layout

Time to salvage stickers that I have. I was able to use my green stickers to spell out MOTHERS.

Simple Paint Chip Mother's Day Cards - green stickers spelling out Mothers

To spell out "Day", I was missing a "y". So, this is where time adds up because you have to put on your thinking cap and be creative on how to utilize the left over stickers. I was able to transform "g" to "y" by trimming off the top of the "g".

Simple Paint Chip Mother's Day Cards - lower case "g" sticker

Simple Paint Chip Mother's Day Cards - "g" trimmed to create a "y"

Same approach for Happy. I had the H & Y, but I needed to improvise "app". What helps me is jotting down the letter I need to improvise so I have an idea of what I'm working with (sticker wise). For the "a", I used a "u" and an "o". For the Ps I used (1) "d" and the other "l" and part of the "o" to create a "p".

Simple Paint Chip Mother's Day Cards - closeup of the letter "u" which will need to be made into an "a"

Simple Paint Chip Mother's Day Cards - jotting down word in process

Simple Paint Chip Mother's Day Cards - letters a, and p (2) made using an o, l, and a d

For the next card, I used the same concept (trim another paint sample), punched the paper design out and this time I placed and glued the paint sample diagonally.